reading in a text file with a SUB (1a) (Control-Z) character in R on Windows
I think I've figured out a solution - because there appears to be a problem reading a Control-Z in the middle of a file on Windows, we need to read the file in binary / raw mode.
fnam <- 'h3.txt'tmp.bin <- readBin(fnam, raw(), size=1, n=max(2*file.info(dfnam)$size, 100))=1tmp.char <- rawToChar(tmp.bin)txt <- unlist(strsplit(tmp.char, '\r\n', fixed=TRUE))txt[1] "1,34,44.4,\" HIJK\032A \",99"UpdateThe following better answer was posted by Duncan Murdoch to R-Devel refer. Converting it into a function I get:
sReadLines <- function(fnam) { f <- file(fnam, "rb") res <- readLines(f) close(f) res}
I also ran into this problem when I used read.csv with a csv file that contained the SUB or CTRL-Z in the middle of the file.
Solved it with the readr package (if your file is comma separated)
library(readr)read_csv("h3.txt")If you have a ; as a separator, then use:
library(readr)read_csv2("h3.txt")